Discontent

Beatriz Serrano is a writer and a journalist who has written for publications such as BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, S Moda, and Vogue. She works for El País and, along with writer Guillermo Alonso, co-directs the prizewinning podcast Arsénico Caviar. Discontent is her first novel. She currently lives in Madrid.

Mara Faye Lethem is a writer, researcher, and literary translator from Catalan and Spanish. Her translation of Irene Solà’s When I Sing, Mountains Dance was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and the Prix Jan Michalski, and winner of the Nota Bene Prize and the Lewis Galantière Award. She won the inaugural Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for Max Besora’s The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí. Authors she has translated include Patricio Pron, Max Besora, Javier Calvo, Marta Orriols, Toni Sala, and Alicia Kopf. Her translations have been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and several English PEN awards.